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INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
P2P Second Life: Experimental Validation Using Kad
: Applications such as Second Life require massive deployment of servers worldwide to support a large number of users. We investigate experimentally how Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communic...
Matteo Varvello, C. Diout, Ernst W. Biersack
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 4 months ago
Designing a social network to support the independence of young adults with autism
Independence is key to a successful transition to adulthood for individuals with autism. Social support is a crucial factor for achieving adaptive self-help life skills. In this p...
Hwajung Hong, Jennifer G. Kim, Gregory D. Abowd, R...
ECIS
2004
13 years 10 months ago
The value of life histories in researching the adoption and use of M-services
Mobile services are a very important part of the e-commerce landscape. Although research has been conducted on what services people use and what value they attach to those service...
Patricia McManus, Craig Standing
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) can be fascinating laboratories to observe group dynamics online. In particular, players must form persistent associations or "guil...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, Eric Nickell, Ro...
ICWSM
2009
13 years 6 months ago
A Social Identity Approach to Identify Familiar Strangers in a Social Network
We present a novel problem of searching for `familiar strangers' in a social network. Familiar strangers are individuals who are not directly connected but exhibit some simil...
Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Sudheendra Murthy, Arunab...